Snow WaxMan's new Snow Blade Scratched!!! after first use.

[WaxMan]

I know I'm risking some nasty responses with that title but
I thought I'd post some satisfaction for the people that don't get to wax.
Last week was the first time using my new blade,(two hours)
And here I thought I could keep it looking nice for a few years since it's only going to be used for snow, ....clean, white, fluffy, snow, unlike the loader and backhoe bucket.
To think the whole time I was waxing it I was thinking I'll show those guys, making fun of me waxing my rims, huh . But after the first storm, first two hours of the season, scratched, Don't get me wrong it's the blade and it's going to get scratched but this much in 2 hours was a surprise. I guess snow blades will look like the loader bucket after a season or two. But you guys already knew that. Go easy on me I don't want to have to change my name to ScratchMan.

 

[Ductape]

ScratchMan, you could always take it back to the paint shop and get it redone !

How did you like plowing with the backup camera? Does it work well?

 

[Dyer retired]

Waxman,

That's one of the finest scratches I've ever seen. Congratulations! Dyer, retired

 

[Harvest Moon]

Awe man, WaxMan, I've been a fan but this time you blew it.

You could have gotten one of these polymer type shields and taken it off for the photos. Those scratches weren't necessary and no one had to know!!

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Quick, get it repainted and we'll forget this ever happened.

 

[dodge man]

I think some buffing compound and a power buffer would take alot of those marks out. Don't give up, its not to late.

 

[LarryRB]

Been scratched. Time to trade it off for a new one,

 

[john_bud]

Could be worse, you could have a wife that used your 4x4 truck and left it in 2wd and drove on an icy road way too fast and put it in the ditch after bouncing around and spinning ripping off the front lic plate, air dam, fog lights, denting the bed, bending the supports and breaking the wheel center and even the garage door opener.


But that would be alot like my day....


jb

 

[WaxMan]

ScratchMan, you could always take it back to the paint shop and get it redone !

How did you like plowing with the backup camera? Does it work well?

Well Ductape let me set the scene.
It was a Friday night about 8:15 there was already 8 inches on the ground and snowing like no tomorrow. I hit the garage door opener button on the roof of the cab, then the glow plugs for 5 seconds by that time the door was opened and I was backing out into the storm. I fired up both factory flood lights front and rear. I switched the wipers on. I switched backup camera on. I turn the stereo on, the heat would be on soon but it was warm since being in the garage. I angled the blade to the right and dropped it down, placed the tractor in High range now with loaded tires which was a first. I always used med and low with the loader and backhoe.

I zipped that tractor up and down the driveway and the neighbor's driveway for two hours, stereo playing, angling the blade right, left up and down etc. etc.
The back window of the cab was all fogged up (i don't have rear defrost on my cab) - looked up at the monitor, clear as daylight with the back floods on a clear path to where I was going and where I had been no fog at all since the camera is outside the glass.

About 9:30 In the midst of having so much fun with the wind blowing snow coming down and warm inside my cab, I paused, and realized how lucky I was to have such a great wife two great kids a dog and my Kubota. It was about a week before Christmas and I remember looking at the monitor and thinking how pretty the snow looked coming down in the monitor against the glow of the flood lights and how well the monitor worked. A bit long for an answer but it was a night to remember, I guess you had to be there.

 

[WaxMan]

Could be worse, you could have a wife that used your 4x4 truck and left it in 2wd and drove on an icy road way too fast and put it in the ditch after bouncing around and spinning ripping off the front lic plate, air dam, fog lights, denting the bed, bending the supports and breaking the wheel center and even the garage door opener.


But that would be alot like my day....

jb

I guess my scratches are pretty silly compared to yours. I wrote my last post before I read your post sorry.

 

[smfcpacfp]

Snow is extremely abrasive. I lightly brushed some snow with my 2001 Corvette as I was pulling it out for the first time in the spring and thought nothing of it. I was taking it to the body shop to get a small scratch repaired that I put in it on the last time I used it the prior year.

I piacked the car up later in the day and when I left work I saw this area on the front that had the paint taken off and was upset because I figured the body shop did it and didn't say anything. I realized that was where I brushed the little snow earlier, so I decided to take a look at the snow, and there was the paint!!

Anyway back to the body shop and a few more hundred $$'s so now my strategy is to carefully not hit the snow with any car. Anyone who has every snowshoed or used waxable skis can tell you how abrasive snow is.